12 months contract with possible extension
Location: Niagara Falls, ON
Responsibilities:
- Lead and coordinate scope definition, cost-benefit analysis, design, testing, implementation, and support.
- Evaluate alternative solutions to identified problems and prepare associated assessment-grade cost estimates.
- Complete or oversee detailed process and other engineering design work.
- Prepare project-planning packages to support funding requests, including:
- Definition-phase cost estimates
- Resource-loaded project schedules
- Project execution plans
- Project risk registers
- Appropriate safety and hazard reviews
- Project Execution and Management
- Manage projects within established deadlines and budgets, partnering with key stakeholders to execute project plans.
- Ensure workstreams and functions understand Business Readiness stage-gate deliverables.
- Coordinate change management and employee engagement, including business-process redesign and training.
- Keep management informed of project status through ongoing communication and presentations.
- Support company and corporate projects or initiatives by providing business-process knowledge, facilitation, leadership, and system-development experience.
- Advocate for projects through funding approval and manage procurement and contracting.
- Lead project execution, including field supervision of construction activities, while ensuring safe work practices for contractors and field personnel.
- Ensure completed projects are properly handed over to the operating unit, and final documentation is completed.
- Own assigned projects and deliver the agreed scope on time and within budget, with no safety or environmental incidents.
- Propose manufacturing processes or utility systems upgrades and operational improvements as part of annual capital budgeting.
- Preferred Candidate Experience
- Completed projects in chemical processing or manufacturing facilities handling hazardous materials, including corrosives, flammables, and pyrophorics - for example, oil and gas, petrochemical, or chemical facilities.
- Familiarity with the Workplace Hazardous Materials Information System (WHMIS).
- Experience in both batch and continuous chemical-process environments.
- Experience implementing projects where manufacturing systems interface with a Distributed Control System (DCS).
- Direct supervision of contractors across disciplines during project work in an operating chemical manufacturing facility.
- Experience starting up and commissioning new systems or units after project completion.
- Experience in process design or supervision, and implementing Process Safety Management requirements or recommendations arising from Process Hazard Analyses.
